Across the West Bank, the landscape is being transformed in a way unseen for decades. Entire communities are being erased through a systematic expansion of settlements and demolitions that mirror the logic of the genocidal war in Gaza. The process is not random, it follows a calculated strategy aimed at reconfiguring the territory, fragmenting its geography, and eroding Palestinian life until presence itself becomes resistance.

Over the past months, settlement growth has surged at an extraordinary rate. Dozens of new outposts, often disguised as “grazing areas”, have sprung up across the hills, while checkpoints and military earthworks now carve the West Bank into isolated islands. Local monitors estimate that nearly half of the land is under direct or indirect Israeli control. Each demolition, each new roadblock, feeds into a broader campaign of de facto annexation, one that expands territorial dominance while claiming to maintain “security”.

What makes this moment particularly dangerous is the quiet normalisation of these acts. Villages emptied of their residents are quickly converted into settlement zones or military training grounds. Camps that once symbolised endurance are being physically erased or cut off from their agricultural surroundings. This transformation, experts warn, seeks to make Palestinian self-rule geographically and socially impossible.

For many, the West Bank today is a testing ground for a new form of control, less visible than open warfare but no less devastating. While governments debate ceasefires and resolutions, bulldozers redraw the future one hill at a time. The struggle here is not merely over land, but over the right to exist, to cultivate, and to remain rooted in a place being steadily taken apart under the shadow of impunity.